[Spambayes] Practical applications

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sat, 21 Sep 2002 20:45:59 -0400


> 1) I notice that Python is an "Actice Scripting" language? Does that a mean
> that a Python script can interact with Outlook to do things like add
> a "Spam!" button, etc.?

Python can control any Windows application that supports a COM
interface.  You have to get the win32all set of additions (there's a
pointer to it on the download pages).  I've never done this, I suppose
you'd need docs for Outlook.

> 2) I'm not up on the Python Software Foundation License. Does it allow a
> company to make a proprietary product that incorporates spambayes code or
> calls it as if from a library?

Sure.  It's BSD-ish, not GPL-ish.

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